He thinks that Candy’s dog should be shot because it is old and smelly, he persistently argues to shoot the dog, an example is when he says “Well, I can’t stand him in here” and “and he stinks to bear hell. Tell you what. I’ll shoot him for you. Then it won’t be you that does it.” He suggests that Candy could have one of Slim’s puppies instead, but he does not recognise that Candy has an emotional attachment to his dog. After he shoots the dog, he does not apologise to Candy and he even cleans his gun in full view of everyone, this shows that he is an insensitive character.
He now decided that the sad ninepin players of the mountain had tricked him: having put him to sleep with liquor, they had then stolen his gun. His dog Wolf, too, had disappeared. Perhaps he had wandered off to hurt a bird or a rabbit. Rip whistled for him and called his name, but all in vain. The mountains sent back his whistle and his shout, but no dog was to be seen.
When Mama Bear is returning home from the store, Brother Bear hides the soccer ball so she cannot see it. When Mama Bear asks Brother and Sister what happened to her favorite lamp, they lie to her and tell her a bird broke it. Eventually, Brother and Sister confess to breaking the lamp. The lesson that they learn is that the truth always comes out of a lie. Morally, Brother and Sister Bear knew that playing soccer in the house was bad.
Though the pet was once a great sheepherder, it was put out to pasture once it stopped being productive. Candy realizes that his fate is to be put on the roadside as soon as he’s no longer useful; on the ranch, he won’t be treated any differently than his dog. Worse than the dog parallel, though, is that Candy (unlike his dog) is emotionally broken by this whole affair. He can’t bring himself to shoot his pet himself, and we suspect this is going to be the same fear and reticence that keep him from making anything more of his life. Candy can’t stand up for his pet because Candy can’t stand up for himself.
Both could not manage the power of Lennie and both ended up on the hay dead and alone ‘Curley’s wife lay with a half covering of yellow hay. Curley’s wife’s death is foreshadowed by Lennie’s obsession with soft creatures. Throughout the book, Lennie’s obsession with soft, living creatures has resulted in the deaths of creatures. The death of the dog then immediately foreshadows Curley’s wife’s death as she ironically tries to reassure Lennie that the ‘whole country is fulla mutts’ but she to
After the conversation about Candy’s dog. Carlson wouldn’t let it go. He even said, “Tell you what, I’ll shoot him for you.” (page 45) Carlson is so set on getting rid of Candy’s dog, he won’t let it go. He can even see the impact it is having on candy, yet, he still presses. So the intolerance we have talked about so far has been more specific about actual people.
CANDY (OLD AND INFIRM) “lousy ol’ sheep” …Carlson’s attitude towards his dog (A70,P48): ‘I don’t know nothing that stinks as bad as an old dog. You gotta get himout…he ain’t no good to himself. Why’n’t you shoot him, Candy?’ …Candy’s words about his future (A88, P66): ‘You seen what they done to my dog tonight?…When they can me here…I won’t have no place to go, an’ I can’t get no more jobs.’ He believes he will share the same fate as his dog eventually, because he is old he is seen as 2useless2. In the novel old age is associated with lack of ability, even in modern times, we still believe old people to lack vital capabilities. However, there are some old people who are still fit and capable of working.
Both were young kids that looked at their missions as just an ordinary hike in the woods. They were always goofing around and didn’t take the situation seriously. One day, while messing around and not being aware of their surroundings, Curt stepped on a landmine and was blown into pieces in front of the entire platoon. Rat writes what he feels is a personal letter to Curt Lemon’s sister explaining how close of friends they were and informed her of his death. Rat becomes angered when he doesn’t receive a response from the sister.
The cover used for the ditch was solid to the touch, but would not be able to bear the weight of a full grown man. The general fell down the ditch, and that was when Rainsford pounced out of his hiding place. Viciously attacking the general, and the man taken by surprise, he wrenched the small pistol free of the general’s grasp and pointed it at Zaroff, determined not to let the general pull any surprises on
You drink some, George. You take a good big drink. George: I ain't sure it's good water. Looks kinda scummy Narr 2: Lennie wiggles his big fingers in the water. Rings widen across the pool to the other side.